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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dmitri return home quickly after hunting?

2. What did Ivan Ilych do when he took his second position?

3. What is the relationship between Christian Cossacks and Muslim Tartars?

4. What is Marya's first reaction to Sergey?

5. What was Ivan Ilych's salary on the Court of Justice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marya Alexandrovna's situation at the beginning of "Family Happiness"?

2. Describe the circumstances of Lukashka's death.

3. How does illness affect Ivan Ilych?

4. What does Dmitri discover about the Chechens?

5. What does Ivan Ilych learn on his deathbed?

6. What causes Sergey and Marya's relationship to blossom?

7. What happens in the first ambush Lukashka sets up?

8. How does Ivan Ilych change when he begins to make money?

9. Who are the Grebensk Cossacks?

10. What role do Liza Annenskaya's pregnancies play in "The Devil"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Tolstoy's literary universe a chaotic one, as people say modern life is chaotic or random--or is it organized around some law or consistency? What law Tolstoy's fictional world organized around?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Tolstoy's treatment of the relationship between masters and servants in three stories in "Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy". How are the roles defined? How do characters vary from them?

Essay Topic 3

Late in life, Tolstoy abjured private possessions and advocated communes. Does the Tolstoy of the stories value worldly possessions less than other kinds of things? Where are worldly possessions in Tolstoy's value scale? Analyze three stories and describe Tolstoy's views.

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